UNL students mourn victims
■Amemorial far those who
died in last month's India
earthquake was held Monday.
BYJILLZEMAW
Faces of all colors gathered
Monday to pray for victims and
families of those who died last
month in an earthquake in
western India.
The Lincoln chapter of the
India Association of Nebraska
and the University of Nebraska
Lincoln chapter of the Indian
Students Association sponsored
an interfaith service memorial
izing victims of the earthquake.
More than 35,000 were
found dead after the quake, said
Jitender Deogun, president of
the Lincoln chapter of die India
Association of Nebraska and a
UNL professor of computer sci
ence and engineering.
More than one million peo
ple were left homeless and
about 500,000 were injured, he
said.
Deogun urged people to
donate money to a relief fund
for the victims in India.
Prayers from the Hindu,
Muslim and Christian religions
were included in the service.
Scriptures from the Bible
and the Koran were read, and a
traditional Hindu mantra was
repeated.
Amit Shrivastava, vice presi
dent of the Indian Students
Association, said planning foi
the event came shortly after the
earthquake.
Shrivastava said he and
other members of the Indian
Students Association needed to
do something to help out earth
quake victims.
“I hope (the people of India)
find the courage to build, to cre
ate, to hope and to dream
again,” Shrivastava said. “We
hope our little contributions
can help to put their lives back
in place.”
The magnitude of this earthquake is beyond
comprehension. We've seen pictures, but no one
knows what it's like to be there."
Peter Levitov
associate dean of international affairs
Peter Levitov, associate dean
of international affairs, spoke on
behalf of UNL Interim
Chancellor Harvey Perlman at
the service.
Perlman couldn’t attend
because he had to teach a law
class, Levitov said.
Perlman wanted to extend
his personal condolences to the
friends and family members of
those affected by the quake,
Levitov said.
“The magnitude of this
earthquake is beyond compre
hension,” Levitov said.
“We've seen pictures, but no
one knows what it’s like to be
there.”
Levitov said the earthquake
was a world tragedy.
“It'd affect us if there was an
Indian community in Lincoln or
not," Levitov said. “This is a
human tragedy.”
Randy Jones, executive
director of the Lancaster County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross, said cash donations were
most helpful to aid earthquake
victims.
The money is used for med
ical assistance, water, food,
blankets and clothing, he said.
Donations for earthquake
victims can be sent to the
American Red Cross Inter
national Response Fund, P.O.
Box 37243, Washington, D.C.
20013.
Lecture
series
begins
FROM STAFF REPORTS
A lecture series entitled
“Vehicles of Revelation" will
begin today and will focus on
key concepts of Judaism.
The free program, open to
the public, will feature Rabbi
Michael Graetz and will be
held in the Nebraska Union
from 5 to 6 p.m.
The series continues every
Tuesday until March 13, each
talk drawing on Talmudic
sources and the work of
French Jewish philosopher
Emmanuel Lewis.
Ideas presented in the dis
cussions will include tempta
tions of knowledge, forgive
ness, minority rights, women
and the idea of equality and
sacred space.
The talks are sponsored by
the Norman and Bernice
Harris Center for Judaic
Studies.
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Road rape leads to assault
charge for 23-year-old man
A fight witnesses say started
from road rage left one man in
need of medical treatment
Friday.
A UNL police officer saw
Matthew Malone, 23, swinging a
black baseball bat at a man on
19th St. around 1:30 a.m., said
UNL Assistant Police Chief Mylo
Bushing.
Bushing said as the officer
approached Malone, Malone
threw die bat into the trunk of his
car.
Witnesses said they saw both
men get out of their vehicles and
start shoving each other.
Bushing said witnesses also
reported seeing Malone get the
bat out of his trunk and swing at
the other man.
An ambulance transported
the man to Bryan LGH East where
he was treated for severe hemor
rhaging and swelling in his right
forearm, Bushing said.
Malone admitted to swinging
at the victim, Bushing said, but
was unsure if he had hit him.
Malone was cited for second
degree felony assault
DWI leads to jail time because
of four outstanding arrests
One man was arrested Friday
morning after four outstanding
warrants for his arrest were dis
covered.
An officer arrested Donald
Jones, 41, after watching, him
drive north-bound on 17“* St.,
and observed Jones crossing over
into other lanes without signal
ing, then crossing approximately
six inches over the center line
before correcting himself around
1:14 a.m., Bushing said.
Jones’ eyes were bloodshot
and a strong smell of alcohol
came from the vehicle when offi
cers stopped Jones on 17th St.
between Vine and Y streets.
Bushing said.
Jones Med the field sobriety
test given by the officer and regis
tered .200 on a pre-blood alcohol
test, .100 over the legal limit,
Bushing said.
Bushing said Jones was taken
to Comhusker Race Detox where
his blood-alcohol level was .191.
Jones was dted with DWI and
also taken to jail for four out
standing warrants in Hall county:
refusal to submit to a test, theft,
burglary and another DWI,
Bushing said.
UNL student dted for MIP
The discovery of a concealed
bottle of alcohol led to an MIP
citation for one UNL student
Sophomore Thomas Cooper,
20, was arrested after a commu
nity service officer witnessed
Cooper tapping on a exterior
window of Selleck Hall, Bushing
said.
Bushing said the CSO saw a
partially hidden bottle under
neath Cooper's sweatshirt
The CSO discovered the bot
tle was 1.75 liters of Jose Cuervo
tequila. Bushing said. *
A UNL police officer arrived
and cited Cooper for MIP,
Bushing said.
Student cited for driving
wrong way on one-way street
University police stopped a
UNL freshman Friday morning,
after she was witnessed driving
the wrong way one a one-way
street *
Nicole N. Beddun, 18, turned
her vehicle east-bound onto Q
St, aone way street running west
around 3:00 a.m., Bushing said.
Bushing said Becklun then
turned south into the U-Stop
parking lot at 17th and Q streets,
where officers stopped her.
Officers smelled a heavy alco
hol odor from inside the car, and
Becklun’s eyes were red and
bloodshot, Bushing said.
Becklun’s field sobriety test
revealed she was impaired, as
well as her blood-alcohol level
registered .086 in a pre-test,
Bushing said.
Becklun was taken to
Comhusker Place Detox where
her blood-alcohol level was .100,
Bushing said.
Law & Order
Beddun was cited for driving
the wrong way on a one-way
street and a .02 violation.
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Attendees of forum
victims of'hacktivism'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA—Computer hack
ers obtained credit card details
and other personal information
for hundreds of attendees of
World Economic Forum meet
ings, which annually draw such
notables as Madeleine Albright,
Bill Gates and Yasser Arafat
Organizers of the annual
gathering confirmed Monday
that hackers broke intoa com
puter containing the credit card
numbers and other confidential
data. But they denied reports
that former President Clinton
had been among the people
compromised.'
Anti-globalization protest
ers appeared to be behind the
number as the mailing list of the
forum's magazine, and called
some of the names in the article
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not elaborate.
The newspaper said its
reporters had been shown
80,000 pages of information,
including numbers of passports
and personal cellular phones of
many of the government and
business leaders who had
attend the annual gathering in
Davos. It said the hackers also
were able to get the “exact
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hotel names, room numbers,
number of overnights, sessions
attended" of all 3,200 people
who attended Davos last
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new way of combining hacking
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Charles McLean,
spokesman for the World
Economic Forum, said hackers
had obtained "proprietary data
like credit card numbers” of
1,400 prominent people, but
not necessarily those who
attended the annual meetings
of world leaders at Davos in the
Swiss Alps.
The Zurich-based weekly
SonntagsZeitung, which dis
closed the security breach
Sunday, said it had seen the
contents of a CD-ROM that
included data on Clinton, South
African President Thabo Mbeki,
China’s No. 2 ruler Li Peng,
Palestinian leader Arafat and
others.
SonntagsZeitung said the
CD-ROM contained secured
information on 27,000 people
who have attended the global
forum in recent years, including
former Secretary of State
Albright and Microsoft founder
Gates.
McLean dismissed that
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